My projects often start off as a foray into my curiosity, based on my desire to learn something or feed into my other interests, particularly with photography and science.
From building a folding chair or plant box, or using a mobile CT scanner on my groceries, turning a WWII pillbox into a camera obscura, or repurposing badger excavated bottles into lightbulbs – I’m always on the look out for new and interesting ideas.
Psychedelic Mushrooms
Decorations for the Psychedelic Saturnalia in December 2017 working with Moez Kaudeer. This involved making a couple of giant Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric … more
Ruskin Workshops
The first workshop explored space and movement using a sheet of laser light as a canvas and fluorescent materials as a brush. Different effects … more
Bicycle Sculpture
The Oxford Big Green Day Out 10th June 2017 Commissioned by the Oxford City COuncil and Broad Street, Oxford, 10th June 2017 … more
Making of the bicycle sculpture
Myself and Roger Perkins have received funding to make a bicycle sculpture for the Oxford Big Green Day Out. We received a collection of rusty and … more
“Not to be Taken”
Bottle Bulb chandelier LED lighting installation constructed from found pre-war glassware, bicycle wheel, barbecue lid, gear cassette and gooseneck conduit. Exhibited at ‘Director’s Cut … more
Paper decoration
I had the opportunity to design the layout on Cathy Baldwin’s paper ‘What about the People – The socially sustainable, resilient community and urban development‘, which offers a … more
Ultraviolet cornstarch
Working with Naomi Morris during her residency at OVADA August 2016. Her project which involved finding a way of pouring fluid over her figure and … more
Psychedelic Circus at The Cellar
The Psychedelic Circus at The Cellar, Oxford was a wonderfully eclectic event organised by Dot and Maya, which enabled me to showcase my fractal … more
Pillbox Camera Obscura
When I first visited a pillbox along the Thames at Appleton (OSGB grid reference SP 413011) I noticed that the view was being very … more
Fractal Video Feedback
For the VIDEOVADA event I wanted to create video fractal feedback effects. Video feedback happens when you point a video camera at a screen which … more
Bottle Bulb
For information about my bottle chandelier in Tap Social please go to my bottle chandelier page here. It’s about time I revealed my hoarding of … more
RGB laser line generator
I have been using a 40mW red laser to take photos here and here and in the Oxford Times here. But the whole redness of it … more
Nixie Matrix
After considerable deliberation I ordered 20 IVLM1-1/7 nixie matrix tubes from Ukraine. These are glass tubes with 7 phosphor spots, each spot independently illuminatable. I … more
Fractal photocopy
Simple experiment with feeding rotated copies back into the feed tray. 9 iterations of flower picture: This ‘fern’ was cut out … more
Rickshaw ride to Hill End
Ride to Hill End highlighting the route with electrolminescent wire on Martine Votvik’s custom built rickshaw. … more
Finished the Folding Stool!
After a long deliberation with the stool held together with screws, I decided to go for the wooden dowels and glue option. Foam board … more
Pumpkin Chandelier 2014
Stammtisch event at the OVADA gallery 30th October 2014: … more
OVADA warehouse sketchup
I measured up the OVADA warehouse for this model and textured it with photographs of the surfaces in Sketchup. Thanks to Niko from Bambino … more
Standard 8mm showreel
Hugh Pryor’s Standard 8mm Animation Showreel with Clay, Paint and Snails.
Paper Folding
After exploring a few paper folding techniques from Paul Jackson’s book “Folding Techniques for Designers” I decided to make a light shade from one … more
Schleiren Photography
These photographs are made using 2 mirrors with a 60 inch focal length and a point light source with red and blue filters on … more
Pumpkin Chandelier
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Pinhole SLR photography
Been having unattainable fantasies about what lenses I want for my camera. Do I want a 500mm telephoto? a top of the range tilt … more
Dichroic frog
.. or how to make a colour image with only black and white … more
Sheep Trails
These drawings are created from a sheep trail simulator. The light and dark areas in an image represented the abundance of grass, and the … more
Vegetable CT Scan
I was just minding my own business on the way back from the supermarket when I chanced across a mobile CT scanner. I popped … more
Exploding Birthday Cake!
To make the ultimate birthday cake for Pat’s 70th, Roger, Alan and Ped conspired to create a cake with a difference… Firstly we experimented … more